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Gunman’s behavior indicates planning and control: Ex-FBI profiler
By Jason Sickles, Yahoo! | The Lookout – 8 hrs ago
NEWTOWN, Conn.—In stockpiling ammunition, smashing his computers and killing his mother as she slept, Adam Lanza undertook considerable preparation before shooting up an elementary school on Friday, a former FBI profiler said.
"He didn't just snap. This takes a lot of planning," said Mary Ellen O'Toole, who worked for 15 years in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit where she studied psychopaths and helped capture killers.
O'Toole retired in 2009 and has no direct connection to the case.
Investigators had hoped Lanza's computers would shed some light on what caused him to massacre 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary, a school he once attended. But the 20-year-old reportedly butchered his computer's hard drives with a hammer or screwdriver, according to ABC News.
Still, the FBI's Computer Analysis and Response Team has been working around the clock on the case and could make progress despite the damage.
"The FBI is pretty good, we can pull stuff off anything," O'Toole said.
O'Toole still assists law enforcement and has written a book titled "Dangerous Instincts." She says the Sandy Hook shootings are worse than any case she has dealt with before.
"I have not seen a case with callousness of this extreme," O'Toole said of Lanza's shooting rampage. "It's off the charts."
Multiple reports have painted Lanza, who lived alone with his divorced mother, as being socially awkward but very intelligent, especially when it came to computers.
O'Toole said the way Lanza carried out his killings suggested a high measure of control, including damaging the computers.
"His computers were very important to him. They were a window to his world," O'Toole told Yahoo News. "He didn't want them to survive. He knew that they would give insight into him and didn't want people to have it."
Friends and family of Lanza's mother, 52-year-old Nancy Lanza, have said she dedicated her life to helping her son, who reportedly had Asperger's syndrome or other medical issues.
O'Toole said people with Asperger's, which is a neurological disorder, aren't known to commit such violence and that too much is being made about Lanza's mental health.
"It's time we stop putting out the mental health issue as an excuse that he didn't know what he was doing," she said.
Lanza brought three guns into the school, all owned by his mother. He killed his victims with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle, but he also carried two pistols, one of which he used to take his own life. Police say he sprayed hundreds of bullets inside the school and had considerably more left over to use.
Shooting his mother while she slept and preloading numerous rounds of ammunition into the gun clips signals that Lanza was on a mission, O'Toole said.
"He wanted to accomplish maximum lethality," O'Toole said. "He was not out of touch with reality. I think he put some security measures in place so he wouldn't be stopped."
Which unfortunately meant choosing the most helpless of victims, she added.
"If you pick older people you are going to have some blowback," O'Toole said. "He didn't want people to interfere. When people take security measures like that, you know what you are doing is wrong."
I agree with this
Dennis Leary has a new book, “Why We Suck: A Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid.” If you’re not some type of fanatic, you’re probably reluctant to pick up a copy unless it contains a bunch of inflammatory statements. Hey, guess what? Get those wallets out.
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“There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can’t compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don’t give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you – yer kid is NOT autistic. He’s just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.”
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The Austism Society of America had something to say about that:
“For Mr. Leary to suggest that families or doctors conspire to falsely diagnose autism is ridiculous . . . [His] remarks reflect the same misconceptions of autism being caused by bad or unemotional parenting that were held over 50 years ago.”
I have to side with Dennis Leary on this one. It’s a lot like how paralyzed people shouldn’t be in wheelchairs. They can walk, they’re just not trying hard enough to fuse that spinal cord back together. And don’t get me started on the mentally handicapped. They’re not really retarded, they were just born to suck at life.
Autism made op disease....no clinical tests really not one.
Tue 18 Dec 12 | 11:30 AM ET
CNBC's Kate Kelly discusses Knight Capital Group's board meeting with potential suitors yesterday. Getco has sweetened its bid to $3.60 for as much as half the outstanding shares of Knight. Virtu has reportedly offered $3.20 per share.
Why did his mom keep guns in the house?
Great point 50K dead in Mexico....Chicago looks like a war zone.... and when a white school gets shot up....Stop the presses.
Hard to argue these numbers
Gun violence is an intensely debated political issue in the United States. Gun-related violence is most common in poor urban areas and in conjunction with gang violence, often involving juveniles or young adults.[1][2] High profile gun violence incidents have fueled debate over gun policies.[3] These have included the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, George Moscone, Harvey Milk and John Lennon, the Columbine High School massacre, the Beltway sniper attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre, the Fort Hood shooting, the 2011 Tucson shooting, the Aurora theater shooting, the 2012 shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting.
In 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 66.9% of all homicides in the United States were perpetrated using a firearm.[4] There were 52,447 deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the United States during 2000.[5] The majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides,[6] with 17,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide, while 12,632 (40.5%) were homicide deaths.[7]
Agreed! Totally sad!
Not one of those Board Members ever served but yet love to wave the flag...revolting at best!
Already did...look at the ban list.
Just for your clarification ....I'm on your side...but nothing about those guns was illegal.
Oops listened to the News...now why would his Mom own those? Why did she even keep weapons in the house with a mentally I'll child?
I don't know.....it's a coin toss!
Great post.
Did we not try to ban it? It gave rise tot organized crime.
God is not Santa Clause ....he is God!
There is he just won't answer.
This guy...idiot....used pistols.....like that matters....... He killed KIndergarten kids.....
Armed with two semi-automatic pistols, Lanza rapidly sprayed bullets in hallways and classrooms. Twenty children, many of them kindergarteners, and six faculty members lost their lives. Lanza killed himself before police officers could reach him.
Lt. Vance said all the bodies were removed from the school overnight. A medical examiner is expected to release the names of the victims later today.
Police have assigned a trooper to support each victim's family in the days ahead. Vance asked reporters to respect the families' grief and privacy.
"This is an extremely heartbreaking thing for them to endure," Lt. Vance said.
It will likely take investigators two more days to process the school crime scene where it is believed Lanza fired as many as 100 rounds from his guns.
Why does God allow things like the shooting to happen.....I don't know and God won't answer that question.
Oh God don't puff him up! He will never leave!
Great post why did this woman have these guns with a disturbed son?
He was 24. Stole the guns. He might have had Autism or another disorder .....what now? He wanted to kill people.... He did ........
Speaking ..S.....L...o......w....l......Y here....with the current guns in in America here get used to it....it's a a free for all here...... Every nut job wants their 15 minutes of fame.... This idiot raised the bar on fools shooting schools.... It's just started.....more press more shootings!
I can buy any gun I want..... Sad!
I doubt your posts here get deleted here for that!
What am I making up?
He stole the guns from his mom he shot in the face... the VT shooter did more with pistols....... Get current....the Idiot Joker guy had the drum.....again I see the point.....
This gun did not have that clip but.....I see your point!
Waiting a week to see the Hobbit.
You know, maybe everybody has the right to own a musket.....I could live with that.
Ok...Look I have PTSD and can buy a gun.
So you happy now?
Sherm I am really fucked up mentally....I am on record with a Federal Gov.... Agency I am fucked up! I can go to to Dixie Gun show and buy any gun I want........ True!
Not him....he stole the guns.
Wanna Bet the Shooter in CT was a pot head.....I bet so!
God I love you!
We won't ever do away with guns....hence we will always have this mess!